Gears of War 3 Pre-Order Top 1-million

And becomes the Fastest Pre-Ordered Title in Xbox 360 Platform History

Today, Microsoft and Epic Games announced Gears of War 3 surpassed one million worldwide pre-orders, making it the fastest pre-ordered Xbox exclusive title to reach this milestone in the history of the platform.

Over the course of four weeks, 1.29 million players played more than 11 million multiplayer matches. Here are some of the other interesting stats:

– 145 different countries participated in the beta– 249 years worth of matches played– More than 11 million matches completed– More than 927 million kills recorded – More than 131 million executions performed– More than 23 million deaths by chainsaw– Nearly 23 BILLION bullets fired– 4.9 billion ribbons and 291M medals earned– 435K people earned the Beta exclusive Thrashball Cole skin to use in the retail game when it launches in September– 234K people earned the Beta exclusive Gold Retro Lancer to use in the retail game when it launches in September

Amazing! 145 countries participated in the beta, yet in most of them Xbox Live is not even officially supported. People basically have to lie about their home address and risk being banned from the service because as far as I know doing this is basically a breach of the Xbox Live EULA.

Congratulations on the achievement for both MS and Epic, but is proper international support for Xbox Live too much to ask? I know that people in some regions had to create US VPN accounts in order to even participate a beta they had a valid key for.

Amazing! 145 countries participated in the beta, yet in most of them Xbox Live is not even officially supported. People basically have to lie about their home address and risk being banned from the service because as far as I know doing this is basically a breach of the Xbox Live EULA.

Congratulations on the achievement for both MS and Epic, but is proper international support for Xbox Live too much to ask? I know that people in some regions had to create US VPN accounts in order to even participate a beta they had a valid key for.

I feel the Limited edition is underpriced and the EPIC edition is overpriced. I think the medal should be EPIC only. For 70 bucks we’re getting an 11″ figure and some gun skins? This seems worse than Reach Legendary.

“Gears of War 3 surpassed one million worldwide pre-orders, making it the fastest pre-ordered Xbox exclusive title to reach this milestone…”

This is to be expected, when this is THE ONLY WORTHWHILE GAME EXCLUSIVE ON THE XBOX 360 THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS YEAR!!! The Xbox seriously needs some non-kinect hardcore exclusives to be released this year…

Well, it certainly sounds like big numbers and they had a great marketing ploy to get those figures. Those who stop to think about the numbers will realize that a good chunk of those “pre-orders” are from people pre-ordering just to get the code to play the beta and then canceling that pre-order afterwards. Not to say the game won’t sell huge numbers; just pointing out that marketing #s do not always reflect reality.

When the only way you can play a Gears demo is to pre-order it or buy Bulletstorm you are going to get a lot of pre-orders. What happened to Cliff Blezinsky saying at last E3 that pre-orders are meaningless, then he gets in front of a camera to say the exact opposite when he needs to make more money?

This game looks like about the fourth biggest shooter coming this Fall to this console. Rage and Battlefield 3 just look better.